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Word: glenn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hostile Guerrillas. Rosen's first rocket, Viking-1, was tested over and over in the Eastern factories (Glenn L. Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trial by Viking | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...Glenn McCarthy, 47, the wildcatting rags-to-riches Houston oilman, last week lost his last fingerhold on the green-tinted Shamrock Hotel. For $625,000 he sold Hilton Hotels his redemptive right to the Shamrock, thus gave up the privilege of buying back the property that cost him $21 million. With that went the last significant chunk of the far-flung McCarthy empire, which in its heyday encompassed big Southwestern oil and gas fields, export-import companies, a Detroit steel plant, weekly newspapers, a Houston bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Luck from the Shamrock? | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...GLENN E. HOOVER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...fourths of the picture, Singer Lawrence (played by Eleanor Parker, sung by Eileen Farrell) vivaciously eludes the clutches of one hairy tenor after another in scenes from Carmen, La Bohème, II Trovatore and Samson et Dalila. In the final fourth, with the loyal support of her husband (Glenn Ford), she grimly fights off her affliction. Somehow, the film trails vaguely away from the sense of real-life sorrow and courage which inspired it. Instead, the audience is left with a tantalizing impression that if the heroine had stopped singing and stayed home with her husband as a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...fanciest yo-yo may give less comfort to his friends than to his country's enemies. Actress June Allyson, who looks so normal it almost seems she was not born but arrived by statistics, has been Jimmy's wife before (in The Stratton Story and The Glenn Miller Story), and by now she can play the part in her sleep. Sometimes, in fact, she seems to do so. Frank Lovejoy, who plays General Curtis E. LeMay. the tough boss of SAC, does an excellent imitation of that famous cigargoyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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